Rediscover Imagination!

The 2nd edition of the Altus Adventum role-playing game harkens back to those glory days of gaming where one rule reigned: Make The Game Fun. Everything within this rulebook are guidelines for your group to use when taking your characters on the journey from lowly aspirants to grand legends. This book is but the foundation for you to mold into your own. Ignore rules you don't like. Keep those you do. The goal is to have fun, and no written rule within this tome should ever prevent that.

What Altus Adventum offers is a skill-based system that allows you to focus on how you want your character to progress without being tied to any particular occupation if you do not want. It offers a combat system that moves very quickly, allowing you to focus on the narrative game without stopping play to analyze modifiers. It offers a vast library of weapons, armor, magic styles, and creatures to make every adventure challenging yet fun. It is a tool to bring good friends together.

First let me say that I purchased this PDF as a part of a bundle with four OSR adventure mods, so in effect, I paid 50 cents for it. The system itself is skill based via the MRQSRD from what I can see, with the added innovation of die pool combat and [...]

Starting with its fabulous foreword about roleplaying games, about old ones and new ones, Altus Adventum promises us a fun and old-school roleplaying. To be different than others, author says “If you don't like a rule or just you are thinking that it [...]

There is a lot I like about Altus Adventum, but ultimately it fails to stand out in any particular way. The setting blends Western and Eastern fantasy, and generally touches on most everything. However, it doesn't feel particularly original, and while [...]

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